How I work

What can you expect from me?

I don’t believe that psychological counseling or psychotherapy has to be a strange, distant or unpleasant experience. We meet as equals and have open, motivating and goal-oriented conversations. Whereby the goal is always determined by you.

You can assume that I will treat you with an open mind. Because I consider your trust to be something special.

My work is empathetic, honest, encouraging and resource-oriented.

Holistic systemic approach

Body

Embodiment

• Body-oriented methods
• Talk therapy that includes the body
• What does my body want to tell me?
• What can I learn from my body?
• How can I feel life again with all my senses and in all the cells of my body?
• The body serves as an anchor in the here and now Perceiving bodily sensations means being present and facilitates therapeutic access to emotions.

Heart

Feelings

• What motivates me?
• What resources do I have?
• What do I want? What is my longing? What are my goals?
• Our mind can help us to understand our feelings, but we still have to learn to feel them.

Spirit

Spirituality

• We are not just our personality with the experiences of the past and our ideas about our future.
• When we ask ourselves – Who am I? – we can learn that we are always essentially part of a larger universal consciousness. This can help us to see our challenges from the observer’s perspective and take them more easily

I am driven by…

More about me

Training as a systemic counselor and therapist

• Specialist training in systemic counseling and therapy | Berlin, according to DGSF guidelines
• Certified psychological counselor
• State-certified and recognized alternative practitioner for psychotherapy
• Teaching therapeutic self-awareness and teaching supervision
• Additional qualification in stress management and burnout prevention | DBVB certified
• Instructor for autogenic training, mindfulness & meditation

Study

• Degree in Linguistics and Literature, specializing in Communication Psychology | B.A. University of Kassel and Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
• Guest lectureship in the Department of Psychology | University of Kassel and Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
• Internship at the Institute of the German Language, Mannheim, focus: analysis of psychotherapy conversations

Alternative healing methods, self-awareness

• 2.5 years traveling the world – for self-awareness and to get to know alternative healing methods/natural healing methods (indigenous shamanic healing methods, herbal medicine, Reiki, hypnosis, energy healing, meditation, breathing techniques, therapeutic fasting)

Stations of the journey

In the Peruvian Jungle & Healing Center & the Peruvian Andes

• Shamanic healing methods & natural remedies: 4 months with shamans in the Peruvian jungle
• Alternative & natural healing methods in the Peruvian Andes, hypnosis, Reiki: 6 months

Retreats
in Colombia

• Vipassana meditation: Learning a meditation technique 11h daily: Sensitivity for body awareness
• Followed by 2 months of work in women’s circles, female empowerment

Center for Holistic Living,
Ecuador

• 6 months employee in retreat center
• Further training in alternative healing methods (EFT, kinesiology), raw food, fasting, mediation, breathing techniques, yoga, permaculture (living and working in harmony with the surrounding ecosphere)

Ashram
in India

• Meditation retreats
• Advaita Vedanta -Satsangs
• Yoga-Retreats
• 3 months

What have I learned & what influences my current work?

As important as professional qualifications are, it was actually only through my travels that I gained a deep understanding of life and people. Leaving everything behind, going off on my own and seeing my western socialization and imprint from a completely different perspective has fundamentally helped me to get a much more essential and bigger picture of being human.  

During my long journey, I have broadened my horizons in many places and gained an understanding of how mental illnesses manifest themselves in other cultures and how they are understood and cured using alternative medicine.
I was also able to experience how people still live in harmony with their natural habitat and see themselves as part of their ecosystem.
Animistic and spiritual world views and experiences have moved me deeply and to this day give me a more complete understanding of the human being – a meaningful extension of my western-scientific background.

Through meditation, breathing techniques and deep self-awareness in wild places in nature, I have gained a deep insight into the psyche and the almost infinite possibilities of the human being.